Thursday 07/16/15

Rainfall Boosts Soil Moisture in Western Canada

Rains have started to fall for many portions of the Prairies during the past week, but not everyone has seen the rain yet. The rainfall outlook during the next few weeks looks more positive.[Read Full Blog Post]

Thursday 07/09/15

Showers Show Some Promise For W. Canada

The dry weather pattern that has delayed crop progress and dried out top soils across western Canada during the spring and early summer is showing some signs of change. Several days of scattered showers starting this weekend into next week may bring a little more widespread coverage of some beneficial rain amounts.[Read Full Blog Post]

Thursday 07/02/15

Drove from Michigan to Texas and back on two different routes and seen nothing but very poor corn and beans. There are small areas of good crops in Ark. and east Texas but thats about it. Along 57 in Ill. corn is small and in very bad condition,flooded,stunted corn everywhere you look. If we are to have trend-line yields of 165 bu. there better be alot of 300 bu. corn somewhere. Tenn. and Ky.were not as bad but not great. Ind.is in real trouble from border to border.

Posted by Raymond Simpkins at
11:53AM CDT 07/06/15

Wednesday 07/01/15

Hit-and-Miss Showers for Western Canada

Showers are expected to fall in a hit-and-miss fashion across most of the Prairies during the next week, leaving many areas with increasing dryness and crops that are falling behind. Temperatures will undergo a cooling trend this weekend before warmth increases again next week.[Read Full Blog Post]

Had a great start in May with little rain and wishing for a drop of water. Now we need the tap turned off 8 inches in one week is starting to effect crops. Some fields haven't even been planted in southwestern Ontario

Posted by EDWIN BOLTON at
6:36AM CDT 06/29/15

Crops look like crap along 57 and 55 in Ill. Knee high yellow corn until you get to Ark. Lots of unplanted acres. I will be waiting to price crops.

Posted by Raymond Simpkins at
10:19AM CDT 06/29/15

Thanks for comments. The first article in the DTN Midsummer Weather Outlook series will be posted Wednesday July 1st.

Posted by Bryce Anderson at
5:28AM CDT 07/01/15

Thursday 06/25/15

Higher Temperatures, More Dryness for Canada's Prairies

Even though it is summer, we are seeing a revival of a weather pattern we are quite familiar with from last winter. The result for Western Canada will be more dry weather along with a return of above-normal temperatures.[Read Full Blog Post]

East Central Missouri is much worse than 1993. It doesn't matter what direction the rain comes from it all hits Montgomery County. We pour 2" to 4" out of our rain gauges about every other day. Farming is over for this Spring. RW

Posted by RUSSEL WINTER at
11:04AM CDT 06/21/15

2015 or 1993. Get real.
1993- Harvested 70 bu. wheat June 15.
2015- 80 bu. wheat flat and rotting in field- June 22
2015- 21 inches rain in May, 2015.
2015- 14 inches rain and still raining -June 22, 2015.
2015- No wheat left worth cutting, if we could cut today.
2015 Custom Cutters have all gone north will come back thru on the way
to South Texas, in July, maybe
Stats NEVER tell the REAL story.
Look on Facebook about Red River flooding on Texas/Ok border, if you have any doubts about our rain problems.

Posted by Tom Stockard at
8:14AM CDT 06/22/15

Just because the city of Des Moines isn't flooded doesn't mean its nothing like 93.

Posted by Unknown at
2:52PM CDT 06/22/15

Flew to central Indiana yesterday, crops there are exactly like what I saw in '93 - short, yellow and standing in ponds. From the air we could see every tile line as a narrow streak of green, but in-between was yellow. They said NW Indiana was worse. Back in Eastern Iowa I'm now up to 9 inches of rain in the past two weeks - beans are turning yellow.

Thu Jul 16, 2015 10:22 AM CDTRains have started to fall for many portions of the Prairies during the past week, but not everyone has seen the rain yet. The rainfall outlook during the next few weeks looks more positive.

Thu Jul 9, 2015 11:03 AM CDTThe dry weather pattern that has delayed crop progress and dried out top soils across western Canada during the spring and early summer is showing some signs of change. Several days of scattered showers starting this weekend into next week may bring a little more widespread coverage of some beneficial rain amounts.

Wed Jul 1, 2015 11:22 AM CDTShowers are expected to fall in a hit-and-miss fashion across most of the Prairies during the next week, leaving many areas with increasing dryness and crops that are falling behind. Temperatures will undergo a cooling trend this weekend before warmth increases again next week.

Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:57 AM CDTEven though it is summer, we are seeing a revival of a weather pattern we are quite familiar with from last winter. The result for Western Canada will be more dry weather along with a return of above-normal temperatures.

Thu Jun 18, 2015 09:49 AM CDTDespite some increase in showers across the Prairies during the past week there remains inequality in the amounts of rain falling across the region. Some areas remain very dry while modest help has come to others.

Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:39 AM CDTThe dry weather pattern that has slowed emergence of crops through southwest Canadian areas may be easing somewhat. However, there is still some uncertainty in this outlook.